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The German noodles are very easily
made and much better than they can be
bought. Bat n egg with a pinch of
salt, stir into it as much -four, well
dried, as will make a stiff elastic paste;
it must be very stiff but not hard.
Roll this out as thin as paper on a
board, then lay a clean double cloth on
the board and the paste upon it. Now
roll again and when it is thin as you can
make it lave it ten minutes to dry.
Cut the sheet in half, and roll up one
portion closely, then with a sharp knife
cut this roll through at intivals of the
third of an inch. It will now form
strips like tapes, which must be lightly
tossed with a fork to separate them.
These may be used fresh or dried in a
very cool oven and kept in bottles.
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On the wisdom and equity of His preceding.
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Many times women call on their family. phys fcdan s rYo !,
this way they all present alike to themselves and tnen Fey ~ +
for which he prescribes his pills and potions, assuming Inem o y
womb disorder. The physician, ignorant of the cause OF OF Insrr Z
natienf pets no better. but probably worse by reason OF il ehy y
Ike DR.. Pierce,s Favorite Prescription. directed to re edm GaIo 10 nga
d;stressinr svmntoms and insututfng comfort instead OF protohee
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= vears WITH female weakness, and had paid
oont one hundred dollars to physicians with
out relief. She took Dr.. Pieree's ga Favq 3rae
u All fhe medicine given to her by the physi,,
hree years they had been practicins upon her
Mrs. GEORGE HERGER. of Wtstfeld,, N. z,
! writes. AZ was a great sufferer from leucor-
rhea- bearing-doWn pains, and pain eontln-
U raIiy across nv back. Three bottles OF your
Favorite Prescription restored mo to per-
Ne feet health. / treated with DIR. -, ZOE
- nine months, without receiving any benent.
is the greatest earthly boon to US
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using the local treatment recommended gEsm1 IN MS Is q ooeahG In t re
months / was perfectly cared, and have had no trouble roniae s SnS nv :
Se ali had been restored, and offering to send the full particulars c1a p
to any one writing me for them, and enclosing a SCI ssashpr ette
SSIo1c fNr renlul have received over four hundred NttleLs
In reply, 1 have described my case and the treatment tine : g gsea
many / have received secona. letters Of th anris s6atP hd ~ til the
$50 REQUIRED for the Medical adviser, and nd app me- vv eme
local treatment so fully and plainly laid doWn tnesem' AN" wa
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!, run it to Church Sunday. Sig Fashionable IN q
d warrant 1t to wear. Discount TO the lFaoe-
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of money, but received no las1li,g
because ! was p~rejudiced against 3.
he would get me some of your !
against the advice of my physician;
.Ffayorite Prescription also six b
ton dollars. I took three bottles
.Fayorite Prescription and ] have
wears. / then gave the balance OF
was troubled in the same way, an
time. / have not hud to take
four years."
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.. h.v imagine one from dyspepsia, another o ns sare and IN
h as ra9 or prostration, another with pain mere ape 81 me diseases,
ann suchh. when, in reality, they are all only $5 5a ~ ea The snaering
non,,.go his practice until large bills are Ma Az .otnr ,nn3icine
,r ene treafmeut and consequent complications; n ~ pp tJhn ali those
Ia have entirely removed the disease tneteoS NfN@A
q misery.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-01
NONE WILL MISS THEE.

Few will miss thee friend, when thou
For a month in dust has lain,
Skillful hand and anxious brow,
Tongue of wisdom, busy brain;
All thou vert shall be forgot,
And thy place shall know thee not.
Shadows from the bending trees
Ger thy lowly head may pass;
Sigbs from every wandering breeze
Stir the long, thick churchyard grass
Wilt thou heed them? No, thy sleep
Shall be dreamless, calm and deep.
Some sweet bird may sit and sing
On the marble of thy tomb,
Soon to t1it on joyous wing
From that place of death and gloom
On some bow to warble clear;
But these songs thou shall not hear.
Some kind voice may sing thy praise,
Passing near thy place of rest;
Fondly talk of other days,
But no throb within thy breast
Shall respond to words of praise
Or old thoughts of other days.
Since so fleetiDg is thy name,
Talent, beauty, power and wit,
1t were well that without shame
Thou in Gods great book were writ;
There are in golden words to be
Craven for eternity. Good Words.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-01

THE Glenn bill, by which the Georgia
Legislature proposes to punish people
commit the dreadful crime of teaching
white and colored children at the same
time, is really a worse measure than is
generally believed. The Boston Jour-
nal, which has thoroughly examined the
act, says: "The bill is so broadly drawn
that if white and colored children were
admitted even to the same Sunday
school every teacher in the school would
be liable to the chain-gang penalty.
Suppose a Sunday school, for example,
connected with the work of the Ameri+
can Missionary Association. and con-
Quoted primarily for the education and
training of the colored people, and sup
pose that such a school should receive
as pupil single white child; the case
would come under the proposed law
Had the Legislature under
taken to punish in the chain gang any
one who violated the state laws regard
ing the sparate public schools for the
two races, the thing would have been
barbarous enough. But the Glenn bill
goes farther than this. and imposes its
barbarous penalties upon professors In
Atlanta University, a private institu
tion, If they teach their own children il
| the same classes with colored pupils"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-01
Identity of muti,a.sa Money


am often asked whether this or that piece
of mutilated money Is redeemable. 1t is safe
to say, unless the moneys identity Is entirely
gone, that it is redeemable. fact, one may
say that money In the shape Of ashes can be
restored. 1t is a fact that after the Chicago
fire ashes were redeemed. It came about In
this way: 1t Is customary In banks to do
money up in packages, say of 900 each,
and in the big fire of course hundreds and
hundreds Of these packages were reduced to
ashes. But the shape Of sfe package re-
mained, and wherever the package could be
sent on to Washington without crumbling
the ashes, the money was sure to be replaced
1t was done by nimble fingered women in the
treasury department whose trained touch
and sight are wonderfully acute.
It is wei known that the ashes Of the news
paper if dampened will show traces Of the
printing. So was it with the bills These
women would moisten the package Of sppar-
emily useless ashes, and to their experienced
eye the number and character of the bill
would at once appear as IL they had touched
It with a magic wand. So thousands and
thousands of dollars were redeemed by these
patient women. A friend Of mine, country
merchant, afraid Of banks, placed large
sum of money in bills in a stone jar on
shelf in his store, where be thought it would
be quite safe. When he went 70 look at It
one day some time after It was q mass Of
fragments. Mice had got into the jar and
chewed the bills into the minutess parts.
Then they had mixed them all up, and alto
gether it was q fearful looking mess He
sent cigar box full Of it to me. forwarded
it to Washington, and what do you thinkl
Out Of the 81, AS originally In the pile . httls
over 81 900 was redeemed, the parts beyond
recall being only the mere fibers OF the bills
So the man lost only 800 by his foolishness.
The reclamation Of such money Is done
entirely by women, whose patience especially
fits them for the monotonous work--Bank
President in Globe Democrat.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-01
TENDING THE YOUNG ,UNs.n

One of the Crucifxions of BOyhood
Days-Hereditary Depravity.
One of the crucifxions of my boyhood days
was in the fact that had the dry nursing Of
all sorts Of 1young 'uns," as they were gener-
ally termed Every farmer that I worked
for scented to have one Of these specimens,
aged from Toto Is months.
If any proof is lacking as to the cause Of
natural depravity, it could be found in the
breed had to care for. They were always
querulous, squalling, rapacious, intolerable.
They were cruel, for they invariably scratched
the faces Of those who attended them, clawed
the breasts that fed them, throttled dogs that
came within their reach, drew cats backward
by the tail, smashed, tore, and defaced every
thing which they were permitted to touch
They were voracious as sharks, and preda-
tory misers in the matter Of property. Every
thing they had, everything they saw in the
possession of others, belonged Of right, In
their estimate, TO them After getting
through the vernacular as far as Ha-goo, a.
goo" their next step was "Minel MineI" Each
of them was Jay Gould from the start, and
wanted the earth.
Often when holding some squalling bierup-
tive brat, which, with clenched fist, closed
and streaming eyes, red and puffed features,
legs and body as stiff as stone posts, yelled,
struggled and fought without the slightest
reason other than such as are to be found IN
natural diabolisru, did wonder why there IS
such a dislike Of Herod the Great, who
showed himself to be ruler of consummate
value, and whose only popular failure was
the slaughter of the Bethlehemic babes.
l worked one summer for the wickedest
man in the county, who lived on the outskirts
of the hill country, who could neither read
nor write, and who generally gave utterance
to an oath or some atrocious blasphemy at
every breath. He had an infant about Is
months old, which had to trundle and
coddle, and which 1 always believed was an
incarnate devil. Long before It could say
@da da" it could utter with vim the express
sion, @By Dodl" 1 remember even yet the
little wretch as he sat in high chair at the
table, with bullet head covered with red,
close curling hair, beady gray eyes, thick
lips, flushed cheeks, and with a chuckle Of
glee would reiterats GBy bod! By Dodl'
1t causes me no profound grief to say that
the father, having moved out Of the vicinity,
was sent to the states prison for grand
larceny.-Poliuto in Chicago Times
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-01
A Charity concsr, In Paris.

The Paris correspondent Of The London
Daily Telegraph discovered how differently
from London fashion things are ordered In
France, when with Miss Van Zandts aid be
gave an entertainment at his home in the
French capital, few weeks sgo, for the ben
eft Of the Opera Comique relief fund. In
London one can give in his house q charity
concert for which tickets are sold, without
the interference Of any police authorities.
Not 50 in Paris The government, In various
forms and divers ways, b constant in Its at
tentions, or at least demands them from you.
You wish, for instance, for the comfort Of
your guests, to have an awning over the side
walk in front OF your house. You must arst
obtain permission, and two special policemen
viii be detailed for service al the swning-at
your expense. Then, when you are about to
begin your little show, representatives Of the
Society Of Authors and Composers and Of the
Public Charities appear to watchfhs receipts,
upon which each lsvies . tax, the 1rst named
according 10 an established and authoriseA
scale, the second according to . rigid law.
1t is possible to avoid or at least TO secure re-
ductions Of either impost, but no end ef cor
respondence and calls Is necessary.-Boston
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-01

THERE is to be a short crop of canned
fruit, we are informdd. which is good
for consumers. The less of that stuff
eaten the better for the public If con>
sumers will study the interest of their
own stomachs a short crop will cover
che ground of very long one, and con-
sumers will save money at that. Let
canned fruit severely alone, and by so
doing poison will be excluded from the
human system to very large extent.
Modern inventions such as preserved
meats, canned fruits, frozen fish and
cooked salmon have not contributed to
the health of the people. but the reverse.
With small effort people will discover
how little it requires to abstain from
such stuff, and the saving in doctors
bills will be very great. Try it.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-01
Defending NJ. Powell by Circnlar

The Democratic Strife committee have
sent out 100000 circulars explaining
how candidate Powell happened to ride
on Thomas B. McCormick's pass on the
Hockina Valley railway. The explana>
utun is substantially that MT. Powell re:
ceived the pass from firm that employ
ed him on legal business, and that he
had no interest in trying to cheat the
railway CON pany.
But the circular does not explain how
Mr.. Powell came to tell the conductor
that his name was Mccormick" and to
insist upon it. The circular says noth>
ing about that whatever, although that
is the only important charge against
him. Any man might chance to receive
the wrong ticket or pass, but no man
with proper sense of dignity and hon
or would deliberately assume an alias in
order to use such pass. Mr.. Powell
might be mistaken in receiving and Of
fering pass belonging TO another man,
but he could not be mistaken in his own
name.
To good many Democrats this epi>
sode in Mr.. Powell's career may seem
to be matter of trining consequence.
but upright. self-respecting men in all
parties realize that such an incident be-
trays the real character of man as full
ly as more demonstrative offense.
The fact that the state committee
prefers to meet the charge by distri-
button of circulars instead of through
the newspapers, is significant. If Mr..
Powell had any good defense-if he
couh truthfuily say that he did not
sted another mans name in order to
say, few dollars-the committee would
be ,nly too glad to publish it in all the
newspapers. The situation is such that
the. are afraid of the newspapers.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-01
Grains of Gold.

Be cheerful. a light heart lives long.
A man should maintain his integrity
at all times.
Spend less nervous energy each day
than you make.
Don't worry: Too swift arrives as
tardy as too SLOW
The truest end of life is to know
the life that never ends.
1t is easy to find reasons why other
folks should be patient.
Avoid passion and excitement. A
moments anger may be fatal.
A man should fear when he enjoys
only what good he does publicly.
Pleasure is the flower that fades; re-
membrance is the lasting perfume.
Think only healthful thoughts. AS
a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
Be persuaded that your only treasures
are those which you carry in your heart.
Purposes. like eggs, unless they be
hatched into action, will run into decay.
Don't carry the whole world on your
shoulders, far less the universe Trust
the Eternal
Next to God we are indebted to wo'
men, first for life itself, and then for
making it worth having.
What sad faces one always sees 10 the
asylums for orphansl 1t is more ratal
to neglect the heart than the head.
A fool can ask more questions than q
wise man can answer; but wise man
cannot ask more questions than he will
find fool ready to answer.
We are all dependent upon one anoth-
er in this world; we all have our sunny
ana our shadowy days, and we all, in
our turn, need sympathy and help.
Love, in its varied phases, can ac>
quire purity or dignity only when guild
ed by an inward power over ourselves |;
that is inself the very germ of virtue.
If you would relish your food labor
for it; if you would enjoy your raiment
pay for it before you wear it; if you
would sleep soundly take clear con-
science to bed with you.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-01
History of the Dollar.

Our word dollar dates back to 1885
when resolution was passed by Con-
gress which provided that it should be
the unit of money of the United States.
Another resolution was passed in 1855,
August 5,providing that it should weigh
1854 grains of pure silver. The mint
was established in 1892, and was then
required to coin silver dollars contain
ing S7125 grains of pure silver. This
was due to the influence of Alexander
Hamilton. No dollars were coined un>
tile 1874, and then irregular. They are
worth0ow 800 each. In 1894 the coin
age of regular dollars began. Our coin
was an adaptation of the Spanish nilled
dollar, coin very popular wherever
the Spanisrds travelled. The coin was
called "paistre," meaning a fat piece of
metal; it is synonymous with plaster. 1t
is supposed that the spsnisrds took the
German "thaler" and called it by the
name of plaster"
The word dollar Is entered in Bsiley's
English Dictionary of 1745,sn was used
repeatedly by Shakespeare at the begin
ming of the seventeenth century, espe-
cially in Macbeth H.. 2, 81; "Till she
disbursed $4,000 to our gen
eral use." (See also the Tempest" H.,
/. I'D. The question where Shakespeare
found the word dollar is answered by
the fact that the Hanseatic towns main
tanned great establishment called the
Steelyard in London. The Steel Yard
merchants were mostly North Germans,
who would call the German thaler as it
was spelt, "dah-ler." The same mer-
chants occasioned the word sterling, an
abbreviation "esterling." As the Han
seattle trade was particularly brisk on
the Baltic, and in Russia the standard
coins of the Hanse merchants were call
ed esterlings, and sterling came to mean
something genuine and desirable. The
word dollar is the English for thsler,
the first of which was coined about 1886,
and corresponds quite closely to our
American silver dollar. The word tha-
ler means coming from a dale or val
ley" the first dollars having been coined
in Bohemian valley called Foachims-
thai. 1t was under Charles ", the EN-
peror of Germany. King of Spain and
Lord of Spanish America that the Ger
man thaler became the coin of the world.
-Financier.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-01
Attention, Teachers!
From the Cincinnati Times-star.

From the Cincinnati Times-Star.
Sir Joseph Fayrer, correspondent of
the Paris Acadamie de Medicine, has
been writing series of articles on over
work in the schools of France and Eng
land, and what he says of overwork in
those countries can with propriety be
applied to the schools of America. The
cramming or crowding process is no
more popular in England than in the
United States, than it is here in Cincln-
nail. The author urges that little chill
dren should never be assigned mental
tasks that will compel night work. That
they are thus assigned is proven by the
fact that most of the heavy recitatiOns
come in the morning session of the
school. Sir Joseph says:
The greatest effort demanded of the
child's brain is thus reserved for time
when the organ is at its minimum of
power, after q whole day of fatigue.
The interval allowed for recreation be-
tween the close of school for the day
insufficient, however long it may be, to
do away with the nervousness of the
evening toll. which too often produces
sleeplessDess and leads to nervous de
rsugement and debility, affections that
have now become common in children,
especially in large cities. Children
should be made to do their most ardu-
GUS mental work at time when both
body and mind are at the height of
their capa0ility between 8
o'clock in the morning and midday.
The function of the teacher is to
point out and make plain to the pupil
more than it is to pass judgment on the
results of the drudgery of the night be-
fore. The instances of the serious, and
sometimes fatal, consequences follow a
repeated overdose of study, can be null
tiplied, but one given by the author in
question VIII be sufficient. An eminent
physician was called to the bedside of a
girl of fourteen years. He found her
with pupils dilated. muscles tremulous,
pulse 12O, and the cerebral action en-
tirelY deranged.s The night before she
had worked till after midnight. and had
done this regularly twice week. Other
nights she was obliged to sit up till af.
ter eleven o'clock to accomplish her
tasks, which for one day included the
story of Touchstone, with citations;
twelve questions in geography. giving
the courses of rivers, etc.; six pages of
French grammar to copy; and copying
a printed p3ge of "Picciola' and learn
ing all the verbs. What doth it COM
for father or mother whose child
now sleeps in premature grave that
before death had done its work the Eut
cid, geometry, the grammars of the
dead languages and large amount of
literature had all been mastered2 Edn-
eating the mind at the expense of the
body is sure to be overtaken with retri-
button, and that is precisely what is
done when little children are called
from their evening sports to their eve
ming mental tasks.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-01
Infatuated with waener.. Music.

Judith Gautier became so infatuated with
Wagner's music that she went to Bayreuth 10
live. There she used to dress in the garb OF
Lohengrin and other Wagnsrian operatio
heroes, and strove In every way actually to
transform herself into one. She not only
wore the heroic costume, and listened by the
hour to the music connected with the heroic
part, but assumed the manner and speech Of
the character into which she wished 10 be
transformed. More than that She tried the
arts of witchcraft, and went through the most
outlandish rites. On one occasion, when she
had been trying for two weeks to turn her
self into Tristan, she had dream which she
thought assured her success. In accordance
with what she saw in the dream, she went oue
to lonely spot at midnight, mixed q strange
kettle of broth over a fire and walked about
it for an hour chanting some Of the lines Of
Tristan in the opera Then the kettle upset
and scalded her foot, whereupon she uttered
a most unhereic scream, limped away and
abandoned the whole business In deep dis
gust.-Paris Cor. Chicago Tribune.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-01

PROF. 5. F. BAIRD. late of the Smith
sonian Institute, who died so suddenly
of heart disease, was the man whom we
owe, in a great measure, the present
methods of fish propagation. 1t was he
who encouraged and insisted that the
theory of fish hatcheries was correct, ,and
showed by experiment the good results
that cou d be brought about in filling
our lakes and rivers with fish spawn.
The complete success of the plan has
long been an assured fact and bears
mute but overwhelming testimony to
the efforts of its protector.